Martha Coven
brings to her consulting work two decades of federal policy experience in the executive branch, legislative branch, and nonprofit sector.
She is also the author of Writing on the Job: Best Practices for Communicating in the Digital Age, published by Princeton University Press in 2022.
Coven served as the Office of Management and Budget Agency Review Team Lead for the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition in 2020-21 and in the Obama White House from 2009-14, first as a Special Assistant to the President at the Domestic Policy Council and then as a Program Associate Director at the Office of Management and Budget.
Before joining the Administration, she spent eight years in the nonprofit sector, as a Senior Legislative Associate at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and an Esther Peterson Fellow at Consumers Union.
She began her career on Capitol Hill, with five years in the Office of the House Democratic Leader and on the staff of a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee.
Coven is also a John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where she teaches courses in domestic policy, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University.
She holds a B.A. in economics and a J.D. from Yale University.